Improvement in shoes



W. H. LAND.

Shoes.

No. 199,983. Patented Feb. 5,1878.

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UNITEDS'I'ATES PATENT OEEICE.

IOWA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF I-IIS RIGHT TO JOSEPH BOYD, OF MABLBOROUGH, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN SHOES.

' Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 199,983, dated February 5, 1878; application filed January 19, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. LAND, of Des Moines, Iowa, have invented an Improved Shoe, of which the following is a specification:

My invention relates to that class of shoes that have lapels formed integral with the shoeuppers; and consists in cutting an incision in the lapel and applying the triangular-shaped end of a buckling-strap over the incision to produce a neat iit over the instep without crimping, as hereinafter fully set forth.

Figure l of my drawing is a plan v iew and pattern of the main portion of my shoe-upper. A is the rear end and heel portion. B is the front or toe end. O is the portion that forms one side of the top of the complete shoe. It is severed from the opposite side of the heel portion A2 by the double-curved cut d d, which starts at the top edge of the portion O near its rear corner, and terminates in the central portion of the part B at the Acentral broken line g g. f is an incision from the eut d d and front edge of the top portion O to the central broken line g g, to allow the severed portion to lap rover the central line g g in parts l and 2, as indicated by broken lines.

Fig. 2 is a plan view and pattern of the minor piece required to be joined to Fig. l to form a complete shoe-upper. O is a top portion corresponding with the part O of Fig. l. m m is the edge, designed to be joined to the Y corresponding edge in Fig. l, as indicated by the broken line m" m in Fig. l. This minor piece can be cut from lighter and less expensive leather than the main piece.

Fig. 3 represents a tongue-piece, designed to be sewed to the edge n n' of Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 represents a strap, having a triangular-shaped and enlarged rear end, r, designed to be attached to the lappet l 2 in such a manner as to cover its gaping incision f. It may be sewed on, riveted, or secured in any suitable way. The triangular end 1' of the strap thus serves to ll the gore occasioned by the incision f, and the combination of the strap having the enlarged end r with the lappet l 2 having the incision f, and formed integral with the front (l, produces a neat iit across the ankle, and a simple means of producing alapjoint' over the instep without crimping or cutting away and wasting leather.

Fig. 5 is a perspective view of a complete shoe, and illustrates the combination rand operation of my improved forms of uppers.

A second strap may be slipped under the triangular end 1' of the buckling-strap, and secured therewith, as indicated by broken lines.

I am aware that shoe-uppers have been cut in a similar shape and manner, and that a shoe having a lapel to extend over the center of the instep has been made, and a bucklingstrap attached to such a lapel; but I claim that my manner of gorin g the lapel by means of the incision j' and the enlarged end r of the buckling-strap is novel, and greatly advantageous in producing a neat, tight-tting lap-joint over the instep, and at the very point where it is essential to the comfort of the wearer to close-the shoe firmly to the foot.

I am also aware that the lower portion of a flap in a button-shoe has been cnt integral with the shoe-upper, and the upper portion of the button-Hap cut separately and then sewed in its place like a gore, to produce a complete flap and a close iit over the instep. A vertical seam over the instep, and also a transverse seam across the instep, result from this method of forming a flap or lapel. By my improvement I simply cover a gore in the lapel by the attachment of a buckling-strap to form a complete lapel and a neat lit over the instep.

I claim as my invention- In a buckle shoe or gaiter, the lapel formed integral with the upper A B O, having an incision, f, and the bucklingstrap, having a triangular-shaped end, r, applied over the incision, substantially as and for the purposes shown and described.

XVILLIAM HENRY LAND.

Witnesses:

W. H. MOHENEY, C. A. JoHNsoN. 

